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Don’t shoot butterflies with guns.

Can you imagine someone running小题1:a butterfly with a gun in his hands? Won’t such stupidity make you burst out laughing? But wait. Stop and consider how often you might have done小题2:similar.

小题3:hen, Henny-Penny, lived in a forest with many other animals and birds. One fine, sunny morning, she was busy looking for worms in the ground. Suddenly she let out a小题4:(frighten) cackle (咯咯叫 ) with wings flapping in fear. A dry leaf had fallen down on her, and she went screaming at whoever she met, “Run, run for your lives; the sky小题5:(fall).” The other birds and animals stopped whatever they were doing. Some ran behind Henny-Penny, screaming warnings with her,小题6: others spread the unfounded story that the sky was falling.

We all have come across people like this hen. The rest of us are like the other foolish creatures小题7: did not stop to verify ( 证实 ) the小题8:(true) for themselves. They shoot butterflies with guns. They just will not think for themselves.

Why don’t people think for小题9:? Often because of laziness, or because they do not want to be responsible for their way of thinking. Don’t let your mind be enslaved 小题10: someone else. Stop, think and then go ahead. Let these signals direct you at every crossroads of life.